gmp/mpfr status

[Tim Prince]

NightStrike wrote:
> Is there an approximate timeline for when the gmp and mpfr packages
> will be upgraded to the minimum required for compiling gcc?  Really, I
> guess it's just mpfr that has to be upgraded to 2.3.0., but I think
> mpfr 2.3.0 requires gmp 4.2.2.
> 

I've been building gcc 4.3 and 4.4 with mpfr upgraded to 2.3.1, taking the 
gmp provided by cygwin.  gcc build doesn't complain about mpfr 2.3.0 until 
you get to a few testsuite failures, but there seems no point in using 
less than 2.3.1.
The timeline is whenever the mpfr maintainer gets to it.

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